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Health Care Study: Lack Of Insurance Has Led To 17,000 Child Deaths

AFP | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by...

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Medicare Part D Creators Now Working For Lobbyists With Billions At Stake

ProPublica | Olga Pierce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollar...

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Health Insurance Industry: How Karl Marx Can Help Us Understand the Health Care Crisis

Yuna Shin | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Yuna Shin

The word "industry" itself is apt in describing our current insurance system. Under "industry" we assume that there is a concrete, external object produced through human labor that is insurable.

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Why Real Health Care Reform Is Impossible

Barry Sears | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

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Barry Sears

Health care providers are making too much money. So what is the solution? Less health insurance, not more, may be the answer. Fewer food subsidies, not more, might be a start.

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Jason Linkins

Health Care Stocks Soar With Release Of Baucus' Reform Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Max Baucus was paid handsomely (in campaign contributions) by the health care industry to deliver a health care reform bill that only the health care ...

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Corporatists vs. Capitalists

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.

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Michael Pollan Says Healthcare Reform Will Fail Unless We Change The Way We Eat

Grist | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

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First in The New York Times last week and then on NPR this weekend, Michael Pollan made that point that if we want to fix our health-care system, we h...

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Execs Profited From Bogus Bonuses

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

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BISMARCK, N.D. -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota used premium payments to fund $15 million in employee bonuses, cover $35,000 for a retirement...

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Jason Linkins

Health Insurance Stocks Soar On Baucus Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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One of the things that gets obscured by the huge sums of money being spent by lobbyists to degrade, deride, and defuse legislation is that in reality,...

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Baucus Leading Recipient Of Health Care Industry Cash

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion o...

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Drug industry, Pfizer lead in health lobbying

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The drug industry's trade group and one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies reported spending more money than other he...

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Private-Sector Partnerships Bode Well for Health Reform

Doug Schoen | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

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Doug Schoen

Bringing industry leaders into the legislative process diffuses one of the biggest threats to comprehensive health care reform.

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Pharmaceutical Industry's Deal Is a Reform-Enhancing Drug

Doug Schoen | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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Doug Schoen

By sitting down at the table and agreeing to sacrifice for the cause of health care reform, the drug industry is moving the process in the right direction.

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We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Bernie Sanders

What we have seen over the last several decades is the systemic fraud perpetrated by private insurance companies, private drug companies, and private for-profit hospitals ripping off the American people.

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Nate Silver: Health Care Industry Lobbying, Contributions Could Doom Public Option

FiveThirtyEight.com | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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As I lamented yesterday, health care is one of those areas where both popular opinion and sound public policy seem to take a backseat to protecting th...

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Sam Stein

Daschle's Firm And Group Have Ties To Private Health Care Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise plan on Wednesday has been pa...

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Key Senators Involved With Health Care Overhaul Have Industry Ties

AP | LARRY MARGASAK and SHARON THEIMER | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Influential senators working to overhaul the nation's health care system have investments and family ties with some of the biggest ...

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Healthcare Lobby Got $36.5 billion Out Of Stimulus

Washington Post | Robert O'Harrow Jr. | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics

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When President Obama won approval for his $787 billion stimulus package in February, large sections of the 407-page bill focused on a push for new tec...

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Obama praises health industry's vow to cut costs

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama praised the health care industry's promise to cut $2 trillion in costs over 10 years Monday, taking a sharply differen...

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Sam Stein

Obama And Industry Groups To Propose $2 Trillion In Health Care Savings

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

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In conjunction with the White House, a host of trade associations, pharmaceutical groups and other stakeholders in the health care debate are set to a...

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Top Health Care Industry Reps To Offer $2 Trillion In Savings In Bid To Help Pass Obama's Overhaul: AP

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plan to provide medical insurance for all Americans took a big step toward becoming reality Sunday after l...

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Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform

Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Jeff Merkley

Frank Luntz, the man who promoted preemptive war in Iraq and distracted from the severity of global warming, is at it again -- this time with a messaging strategy designed to sink health care reform.

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Ryan Grim

Astroturf Lobby Charged With Tricking Old Folks Into Writing Letters To Local Editors

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

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Medicare Advantage plans -- publicly funded but privately administered Medicare plans -- are regularly accused of tricking the elderly into giving up ...

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Even As They Criticize, Dems Taking Dollars From Health Care Industry

New York Times | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, eve...

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